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They Do It With Mirrors (published in 1952) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, featuring her detective Miss Marple. It is also a short story (They Do It with Mirrors (Heinlein)), written by Robert A. Heinlein, writing under the pseudonym Simon York in Popular Detective magazine, May 1947.

Plot

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When Jane Marple goes to stay with her old, and rather frail, friend Carrie-Louise at her sprawling Victorian Gothic mansion, which is not only a family home but also a rehabilitation centre for delinquent boys, she soon begins to realise that all is not well there. Then an attempt is made on the life of Carrie-Louise’s husband, her step-son is shot to death and someone tries to poison Carrie-Louise herself. When the local police show no signs of solving the case, it is up to Marple to unmask the killer.

Film versions

Adapted as Murder with Mirrors in 1985 for television, and again in 1992 for BBC, starring Joan Hickson.

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot | Miss Marple | Tommy and Tuppence | Ariadne Oliver | Arthur Hastings | Chief Inspector Japp
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles | The Secret Adversary | Murder on the Links | The Man in the Brown Suit | The Secret of Chimneys | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Big Four | The Mystery of the Blue Train | The Seven Dials Mystery | The Murder at the Vicarage | The Sittaford Mystery | Peril at End House | Lord Edgware Dies | Murder on the Orient Express | Three Act Tragedy | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Death in the Clouds | The A.B.C. Murders | Murder in Mesopotamia | Cards on the Table | Death on the Nile | Dumb Witness | Appointment with Death | And Then There Were None | Murder is Easy | Hercule Poirot's Christmas | Sad Cypress | Evil Under the Sun | N or M? | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | The Body in the Library | Five Little Pigs | The Moving Finger | Towards Zero | Sparkling Cyanide | Death Comes as the End | The Hollow | Taken at the Flood | Crooked House | A Murder is Announced | They Came to Baghdad | Mrs McGinty's Dead | They Do It with Mirrors | A Pocket Full of Rye | After the Funeral | Hickory Dickory Dock | Destination Unknown | Dead Man's Folly | 4.50 From Paddington | Ordeal by Innocence | Cat Among the Pigeons | The Pale Horse | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | The Clocks | A Caribbean Mystery | At Bertram's Hotel | Third Girl | Endless Night | By The Pricking of My Thumbs | Hallowe'en Party | Passenger to Frankfurt | Nemesis | Elephants Can Remember | Postern of Fate | Curtain | Sleeping Murder
as Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread | Unfinished Portrait | Absent in the Spring | The Rose and the Yew Tree | A Daughter's a Daughter | The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates | Partners in Crime | The Mysterious Mr. Quin | The Hound of Death | The Thirteen Problems | Parker Pyne Investigates | The Listerdale Mystery | Murder in the Mews | The Regatta Mystery | The Labours of Hercules | Poirot's Early Cases
Plays: Akhnaton | The Mousetrap | Witness for the Prosecution | Verdict | Rule of Three | Fiddlers Three

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